There's a more extensive article and obituary in the Shreveport (LA) Times, detailing Hawkins' ties to Shreveport and its musicians (James Burton is a native of, and lives in, Shreveport).

Here's the article that appeared on the front page:

http://tinyurl.com/ye56kf8

I was fortunate enough to see him in concert about 6 years ago at a small local blues festival. It was pretty amazing; that song is such a part of the fabric of rock and roll that you forget it has not been around forever.

I love, too, that the obituary published in the Times asked that "in lieu of flowers, please make memorial donations to the charity of your choice, or just help a struggling musician."

C'mon, Ann's talking about guys known for one great song about a girls name. Much more difficult than artists with lots of credits who also happened to sing a girl's-name song.

I can't believe I was scooped by Meade right off the bat with Brandy. (And what station do you hear it so often on, Ann?) I'll have to go comic with Antonio Monge (alternately Rafael Ruiz) and Macarena! Ay!

Some of the suggestions are missing a key factor, that the fame rest on that one song. So you can't suggest Buddy Holly or Sting, for example.

And the person should *not* be dead yet. I'm going on the theory that deaths come in 3s and speculating that there are particular individuals who need to be careful right now. That's why I said "Elliot can live." He doesn't fit the triad. "Brandy" just would be horrible put at the level of "Susie Q" and "My Sharona."

I was going on the assumption that the performer *must* be dead and was about to suggest "Judy In Disguise" by John Fred (& His Playboy Band), RIP 2005. Folks in my day thought they were a British Invasion group, though they were actually from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

But with Ann's clarification I offer this from my favorite 60s group composed solely of NYC record producers (The Strangeloves) - "I Want Candy". Another song every bit as memorable as Suzie Q & My Sharona, and later covered by the excreable Bow-Wow-Wow (barf-barf-barf). As far as I know Feldman, Goldstein and Gottehrer are all still alive & kickin'.

I would have loved to suggest "Venus" by The Shocking Blue but as you all well know their singer Mariska Veres was not only female but sadly now deceased.

DADvocate...You are correct. My memory has an I-Pod shuffle on it today. Speaking of dead singers, how about Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles...Georgia is also a girls name, maybe. In the 60s Ray used to play long engagements at The Peacock Lounge on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta. They admitted smart ass white boys too.

"I can't believe I was scooped by Meade right off the bat with Brandy. (And what station do you hear it so often on, Ann?)"

I was hearing it on the Meade station... Meade kept playing the YouTube of it.

"Meanwhile, the Suzies of the world are so over it."

My mother often called me Susie Q (or just Susie). She had a thing of calling us by different names. She called my sister Dell "Pat" (or "Princess Pat"). and she called my brother George "Sam" (or "Sam the Cake Man").